What did we do?

The end result is actually pretty simple — and that’s how it needs to be. Here’s your plugins, and here’s their statuses:

Putting it all together, we reach a workflow similar to the graph below. Our goal is to query a central database that contains plugin information and inform users about the status of their plugins. This was built so it could be used to support Firefox directly in the future.

What will happen next?

The three components above are a good start, but together we can do more.

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I’d suggest opening the plugin links in new windows so people can easily find their way back to the main page if they need to update several plugins at a time (which is probably the case for most people visiting this web page for the first time).

Great work and thanks!
I was happy to see VLC show up this time around. It needed updating.

I agree with Alexander’s comment about having plugin home pages open in a new tab (I prefer tab).

Last time around I learned that QuickTime needed updating and I did that and QuickTime hijacked all of my default file associations and Apple Update was installed and I didn’t authorize either of those things in fact, I had already uninstalled Apple Update.
I’m fully uninstalling QuickTime.

The versions for Flash, Silverlight and Metastream could be detected. Metastream should be updated. When trying to download it crashed Firefox. I guess that is beyond the Plugin Checker service, because I was downloading from the manufacturer’s website. However, other users would perhaps say that this service crashed their browser while updating plugins.

I’ll keep this short: I have two Java SE 6s listed, U15 being newest and U12 the page can’t detest its version? Why do I have two anyway? VLC, I had a really old 0.8.6 which version was printed but also not “detected,” so human intuition had me just go to VLC’s homepage to update it, so I hope everyone else on Earth is as smart. MSO Live Plugin 1.4, again v. not “detected,” hmm, and a screenful and a half of gray “research” boxes with very vague Google queries. Good start but I think needs work.

Adobe Reader is a problem : I have uninstalled it but the plugging was still here and detected, of course you reported that it was old ! So I have inactivated it. I use Foxit reader instead but you cannot yet test it release !
I have checked my plugin via tools : most of them have a version number but apparently you cannot obtain it with your checking interface. Why ?